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Someone creates an alternative that is federated by default, like Lemmy. But additionally it is fault tolerant, i.e. if one instance goes down, my account will still live on on another, and so will the repositories and all their associated data.
This is the world I want to live in.
Self-host your git repo.
git is already decentralized.
I'd have to assume they mean the features of Github like pull requests, issue tracking, wikis, etc that aren't part of the git
All of those features are very poorly implemented by GitHub. There are many other platforms which do a better job and can integrate with git.
And can integrate with git? Examples?
I haven't found a platform that handles issues integrated with git (as a technology) except, maybe,
git-bug.The wiki concept is simple; an external repo that's a static site generator. All GitHub's wiki happens to be is a fancy UI around Gollum wiki.
The protected branches and other git hooks are definitely part of the git-hooks feature that ship with the software.
Honestly, the full integration and friendliness to self-hosting had me seriously looking at Fossil, until I saw some opinions I couldn't get on board with (e.g., automatically pushing to/pulling from remote on every commit)
Gitea, loads of Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence, Reviewable, Gerrit, Jenkins - and that's just off the top of my head while I type.
Try actually working on 5 different Gitlab instances and you will soon notice that there is in fact a really big difference between federation and decentralization.
You need a new account for every single server. And if you don't want email notifications you'd have to manually check all of them to see if there are issues relevant for you.
Though for what it's worth Gitlab is actually looking into potentially supporting ActivityPub in the future!
This is my biggest problem with Gitlab and github alternatives. Multiple accounts on every single instance you want to contribute to. It's a pain
Gitlab could've worked on federation years ago, but they sat on their hands for at least 7 years until an external contributor decided he would implement it. Good on the dude, but fuck gitlab for being so passive about it for all these years.
Wah really? I contribute to, like countless projects on github. Sometimes just a comment in a discussion or a single line pull request and then never again... gitlab sounds horrible.
Yep, they completely ignored that aspect for maybe a decade. One poor, unaffiliated dude is finally taking it upon himself to implement it while Gitlab engineers cheer him on. IMO it's their biggest oversight and misprioritisation.